What roles did public and private power take in the creation of the British Empire? Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome Dr. Philip J. Stern to discuss four centuries of corporate power fueling British colonialism and attempt to answer the deceptively simple question, “What is a corporation?”

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Relevant Links:

• Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988125
• The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier’s Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents - https://cmrs.trinity.duke.edu/books/english-east-india-company-height-mughal-expansion-soldiers-diary-1689-siege-bombay-related
• The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-company-state-9780195393736?cc=us&lang=en&
• British East India Company - https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/East-India-Company
• Frederic William Maitland - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-William-Maitland
• The Virginia Company - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/virginia-company-of-london/
• Newgate Prison - https://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/Newgate-Prison/
• Royal Niger Company - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Niger-Company
• Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/hobbess-leviathan
• Philip J. Stern at Duke University - https://scholars.duke.edu/person/philip.stern

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